Marian Keyes- Further Under The Duvet

Short stories and unpublished journalism- the modern woman's perfect companion.
Softcover,2005,394 pgs.
ISBN- 0141021233
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The White Man In The Tree- Mark Kurlansky

A comedy of cultural misunderstanding set in the Carribean,New York and Paris- tales of people who because of their differences misjudge each other.
Softcover,2000,301 pgs.
ISBN- 0099286742
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Kit's Law- Donna Morrissey

14 year old kit lives on the rocky shores of Newfoundland with her grandmother as anchor and mother as burden.
Softcover,2001,383 pgs.
ISBN- 9780340769126
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

How Long Have You Got /- Katie Pearson

After being out of the workforce for several years,Molly lands a job in the filming of a documentary with a cantankerous 83 year-old actress called Florence Bird.
Softcover,2005,372 pgs.
ISBN- 0340827041
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Wide Eyed- Ruaridh Nicoll

A remote fishing village in Scotland seems the perfect place for Betsy Gillander to abscond for a few days with her fiance. There, in a landscape marred only by a vast MoD range away to the west, the pale winter sun lights up this next step in her happy and structured life.
Softcover,2004,366 pgs.
ISBN- 0552999040
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Ardour- Lily Prior

When a lonely olive-grower sows seeds of love in search for romance, he cannot know the chaos he will cause. Instead of the voluptuous woman of his dreams, the mule Gezabel falls head over hooves in love with him and the spell of Ardour is cast across the region.
Softcover,2004,215 pgs.
ISBN- 0552770892
Condition- C

Price: NZ $5.00

La Cucina- Lily Prior

Rosa Fiore is a solitary woman who has resigned herself to a loveless life, and expresses her passionate nature through her cooking. Then, one day, she meets an enigmatic chef, known only as l'Inglese, whose research on the heritage of Sicilian cuisine leads him into Rosa's library and her heart.
Softcover,2001,266 pgs.
ISBN- 0552999091
Condition- C

Price: NZ $5.00

The All-True Travels and Adventures Of Lidie Newton- Jane Smiley

Lidie joins the pioneering Westward migration into America's heartland. It is harsher, more violent and more disorientating then Lidie could ever have imagined. They find themselves on a faultline - forces crash against each other, soon to erupt into the American Civil War.
Softcover,1998,452 pgs.
ISBN- 0006551238
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The Sea Between Us- Elizabeth Smither

Covering three generations of a single family this novel has birth, death, romance, adultery, fabulous scenery , good frocks and the differences between Australia and New Zealand.
Softcover,2003,279 pgs.
ISBN- 0143018590
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Cobweb- Neal Stephenson

When an Arab student turns up drunk, and dead, in the lake in the East Iowa University, redneck Deputy County Sheriff Clyde Banks gets a feeling he's on to something big. It's a suspicion shared by low-ranking CIA agent Betsy Vandeventer. But before two great minds yell conspiracy theory, in steps top US policy-maker James Millikan.
Softcover,2005,384 pgs.
ISBN- 0099478854
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Edinburgh, the AIDS capital of Europe, through the jaded eyes and harsh vernacular of heroin addict Mark Renton, who is sick of his friends, sick with the city and its deserted docklands, and above all sick with himself.
Softcover,1993,343 pgs.
ISBN- 0749336501
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Porno- Irvine Welsh

To realize his dream of directing and producing a pornographic movie, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton and a motley crew. In the world of "Porno", however, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, most of all, with each other.
Softcover,2003,479 pgs.
ISBN- 0099422468
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The Bedroom Secrets Of Master Chefs- Irvine Welsh

Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unravelling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life.
Softcover,2007,439 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099483588
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Filth- Irvine Welsh

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, and a dramatic deterioration in his genital health.
Softcover,1999,392 pgs.
ISBN- 0099591111
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Blessings- Anna Quindlen

One night a young couple sneak onto the estate of wealthy Lydia Blessing and leave a box in the driveway. In the box is a baby and Skip Cuddy, the caretaker who finds her decides secretly to keep her. When Lydia Blessing discovers this she decides to collude with him.
Softcover,2003,339 pgs.
ISBN- 0099446936
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

I Capture The Castle- Dodie Smith

Cassandra's eccentric father is a writer whose first book took the literary world by storm but he has since failed to write a single word. This title tells the story of seventeen-year-old, Cassandra and her extraordinary family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle.
Softcover,2003,409 pgs.
ISBN- 0099439743
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Angel Rock- Darren Williams

The setting is Australia, 1969. Two half-brothers get lost in the wild wooded countryside around the small town of Angel Rock. Only the eldest, 13-year-old Tom, finds his way home. At about the same time, a 16-year-old girl goes missing from the town and is found in Sydney. She has killed herself. The policeman who gets the case in the city follows the trail back to Angel Rock.
Softcover,2002,311 pgs.
ISBN- 0007128460
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

August- Gerard Woodward

Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans's first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. At Easter, Mrs Evans writes to ask if he, Colette and their four children require the third field for the summer.
Softcover,2002,308 pgs.
ISBN- 0099286920
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Shadows Of Glory - William Woodruff

1938: the Arnold College crew are a varied bunch, united only by the love of their sport and a sense that theirs is a generation which may have to fight for king and country.
Softcover,2003,358 pgs.
ISBN- 034911689X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The Bonfire Of The Vanities- Tom Wolfe

One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s.
Softcover,1990,730 pgs.
ISBN- 0330305735
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The Twins- Tessa de Loo

The women are twins, separated in childhood by the death of their parents. Anna stays in their native Germany, while Lotte is taken in by relatives in the Netherlands. Consequently, they lose touch with each other and live through the rise of Hitler, the Second World War and the postwar era from opposed positions.
Softcover,2000,392 pgs.
ISBN- 1900850567
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Captain Corelli's Mandolin- Louis de Bernieres

In the early days of the Second World War, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece, Dr. Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn't so bad--at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the cultured Captain Antonio Corelli, who responds to a Nazi greeting of "Heil Hitler" with his own "Heil Puccini," and whose most precious possession is his mandolin.
Softcover,1995,434 pgs.
ISBN- 0749397543
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Tied To The Tracks- Sara Donati

Seemingly out of the blue, tiny documentary company Tied to the Tracks is handed the opportunity of breata lifetime: a personal invitation from reclusive literary legend Miss Zula Bragg to make a film about her life.
Softcover,2006,292 pgs.
ISBN- 9781863254922
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Roddy Doyle- A Star Called Henry

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. He eventually becomes a Fenian, a rebel, a republican legend - one of Michael Collins's boys, an assassin on a stolen bike.
Softcover,2000,342 pgs.
ISBN- 0099284480
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Roddy Doyle- The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

The story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her powerless.
Softcover,1997,225 pgs.
ISBN- 0749395990
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Roddy Doyle- Paula Spencer

Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come from Eastern Europe.
Softcover,2006,277 pgs.
ISBN- 0224078674
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Mr Starlight- Laurie Graham

The Boff brothers live at home with their Mam. They have a lav down the yard and a jerry under the bed and they play bookings at the Birmingham Welsh and the Rover Sports and Social. Cled tinkles on the piano and Sel is the crooner. 'Sel's the one who can lift people out of themselves and send them home feeling grand and you can't argue against that' says Cled. When Sel decides he must try his chances with the brights lights of New York City, he packs up his sequinned suits and enlists his brother as travel companion and accompanist.
Softcover,2006,290 pgs.
ISBN- 0007234082
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Unfortunates- Laurie Graham

Poppy Minkel's mother despairs of ever finding her a husband. When Daddy disappears, Poppy's tendency to the unusual is quietly allowed to flourish as she invents her own life in step with the unfolding century. Meanwhile World War I opens new horizons.
Softcover,2002,370 pgs.
ISBN- 184115315X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Things We Knew Were True- Nicci Gerrard

At 16, Edie's world was turned upside-down when her father failed to come home from work one evening. After 20 years, she eventually makes a passionate and dangerous attempt to return to the past - in search of the the truth about her father and lost teenage love.
Softcover,2003,309 pgs.
ISBN- 0141012471
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Gump & Co- Winston Groom

The heart-warming sequel to Forrest Gump.
Softcover,1995,226 pgs.
ISBN- 0552996637
Condition-C

Price: NZ $6.00

Skipping Christmas- John Grisham

Luther and Nora Krank try to avoid the frenzy traditionally experienced during the Christmas holiday.
Hardback with dj,2001,176 pgs.
ISBN- 0712620044
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Kelly + Victor- Niall Griffiths

It's the dawn of the new millennium and most people in Liverpool are coping with a thousand-year hangover. But in the midst of the debris, two people have found something wonderful: Kelly and Victor have found each other--and after just a few hours, they can't believe they were ever apart.
Softcover,2002,343 pgs.
ISBN- 0099422050
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Mirror Lake- Thomas Christopher Greene

A tale of love,loss and redemption,drawing us into the small town of Eden,Vermont and into the complex lives of two very different men.
Softcover,2004,293 pgs.
ISBN- 009945193X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Past Is a Secret Country- Maree Giles

Freya lives on a houseboat on the Grand Union Canal in London. She's happy there - she's started a business as a natural therapist; she likes her own company and loves the friendly, albeit eccentric canal lifestyle. There's one thing missing - her two teenage children: Kirsty and Tom. They are living with her born-again Christian ex-husband Neill, and his new wife.
Softcover,2005,402 pgs.
ISBN- 1844080293
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The House Gun- Nadine Gordimer

Privileged whites in post-apartheid South Africa, Harald and Claudia Lindgard have managed to live the better part of 50 years without ever confronting the deepest shadows in their culture or in their own souls.
Softcover,1999,293 pgs.
ISBN- 0747542570
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Snow Falling On Cedars- David Guterson

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt.
Softcover,1995,404 pgs.
ISBN- 0747522669
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Mrs Kimble- Jennifer Haigh

Over a span of twenty five years,three women marry the same man- Ken Kimble.
Softcover,2004,394 pgs.
ISBN- 0007150865
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Chocolat- Joanne Harris

When an exotic stranger,Vianne Rocher,arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church,Father Reynaud sees her as a serious threat to his flock- especially in Lent.
Softcover,1999,394 pgs.
ISBN- 0552998931
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Blackberry Wine- Joanne Harris

A disillusioned writer who completed one brilliant book and a great deal of junk fiction is married to the ultra-smart and supercilious Kerry, one day, on impulse, decides to buy an old farm in France - and then moves there, out of the blue.
Softcover,2001,333 pgs.
ISBN- 0552998001
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The Bird Woman- Kerry Hardie

One woman,two marriages.A life between two cultures.
Softcover,2006,368 pgs.
ISBN- 0007232764
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

White Powder,Green Light- James Hawes

'An amusing,garrulous satire on Soho media life...'
Softcover,2003,325 pgs.
ISBN- 0099442086
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Alligator Strip- Chris Haslam

Martin Brock (the "hero" of 12 Step Fandango)turns up in Florida, living on a Trailer Park on the Redneck Riviera and getting involved in a quite ingenious con scheme.
Softcover,2005,339 pgs.
ISBN- 0349118396
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Bloody Mary- Meg Henderson

A novel of Glasgow by one of Scotland's most popular and best-loved authors.
Softcover,1999,325 pgs.
ISBN- 0006550274
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The Holy City- Meg Henderson

A novel about growing up in the close knit blue-collar community of Clydeside from the 1920's to the present day.
Softcover,1999,309 pgs.
ISBN- 0006550258
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Chasing Angels- Meg Henderson

The story of a woman's search for the secrets at the heart of her family.
Softcover,2000,293 pgs.
ISBN- 0006550266
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Kitchen Venom- Philip Hensher

A clerk in the House of Commons fond of rent boys ??
Softcover,2003,325 pgs.
ISBN- 0007152426
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

About A Boy- Nick Hornby

Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems.
Softcover,1998,285 pgs.
ISBN- 0575066598
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

How To Be Good- Nick Hornby

A hilarious,biting satire on what it means to be a good person.
Softcover,2001,243 pgs.
ISBN- 0140287019
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The River king- Alice Hoffman

A small town in Massachusetts...the town is divided into the haves (an elite privtae school) and the have nots (townsfolk)
When one of Haddan School's students is found drowned in the troubled Haddan River, city and students alike are effected.
Softcover,2000,324 pgs.
ISBN- 0099286521
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Here on Earth- Alice Hoffman

A woman returns to her childhood home to attend a funeral with her daughter and revisits the raw passion of an unrequited love.
Softcover,2002,293 pgs.
ISBN- 0099750813
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Ice Queen- Alice Hoffman

A haunting novel of grief,addictive passion,second chances and secrets.
Softcover,2005,211 pgs.
ISBN- 0701179007
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Almond Picker- Simonetta Agnello Hornby

A poetically redolent account of the small village of Roccacolomba in the days that follow the death of the mysterious and demonically omnipotent Mennulara,the almond picker...
Softcover,2005,268 pgs.
ISBN- 192114517X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00